Hey, I'm back with chapter 7! I always wondered how the Predators would react to Bert's "Wall of Weaponry" as I call it. Now, you can find out. Also, Bert makes a bit of an enemy in this particular chapter. Thanks for all of the reviews!
Predator Vs. Tremors
Chapter 7: The Ultimate Warrior
Bert began to lead the aliens back to his house. Luckily, they were only about a mile away and the walk would be short. The largest of the aliens walked directly behind Bert, while the rest trailed a few feet behind. Earl had managed to get the Graboid to follow him and Bert wondered how his friend had faired.
Within a few minutes, Bert and the aliens reached Bert's compound. When the first Ass-blasters attacked, Bert's home had been completely destroyed. But he had rebuilt it so it would be resistant to Graboid, Shrieker, and even Ass-blaster attacks.
Bert entered the code to open the heavy steel gate that surrounded his home. The doors opened quickly and Bert strode into the compound, feeling the most at ease that he had been in a while. The only thing he had to worry about now was the aliens.
Bert quickly led the aliens into his house and into the basement where all of his weapons were kept, ready to use.
An'tir'de entered the small human dwelling. The whole dwelling seemed well protected. The human led the Yautja down a passage and into a large room. An'tir'de and his group marveled at the sight of the hundreds of weapons. The variety was endless. In all his years of hunting, An'tir'de had never seen such a large collection of weapons by a prey-species.
As An'tir'de tore his gaze from the weapons, he realized that the room had many trophies of different creatures, including a worm-creature, mounted on the walls. It seemed that they had crossed the path of a human hunter.
The human walked over to the wall of weapons and took many down, speaking quickly. An'tir'de's mask picked up a bit of the speech and he was shocked to find out that the human was explaining exactly what each of the weapons was.
An'tir'de smiled to himself and went over to examine the weapons.
Bert took down rifles, shotguns, hand guns, and many more weapons from his wall. He began to tell the aliens what each one was out of habit. He doubted that they could understand him.
The largest alien walked over to him and picked up a rather large shot gun. It spun the gun around in its hands and, with a grunt, tossed it to one of it's' fellows and continued to the next weapon. By the way the aliens handled the guns, Bert figured that they had had some experience with human weapons. Bert when over to a large desk and pulled out the bullets for the guns. He had them each labeled to which gun they would go with.
Bert began to show the largest alien which bullets went to which gun. The alien seemed to understand well enough and began to instruct the others. Bert smiled to himself and thought, "Maybe I'll get out of this alive after all."
As soon as the Yautja had the human weapons ready An'tir'de's thoughts turned to a different matter. What to do with the human. Killing it would not be honorable, but some of the others thought that death would be the appropriate choice.
"We should kill it. It could be hazardous to let it live," Vir'nde said. There were murmurings of agreement in the group.
"Not only would that be dishonorable, it has aided us; that alone is enough to let the human live," An'tir'de answered curtly.
"But, leader, this human could cause problems for hunts in the future," Treken said, his head bowed.
"We are not killing it," An'tir'de growled, getting aggravated.
"Then we risk exposing ourselves," Vir'nde snapped.
An'tir'de glared at the student. "I am leader. What you think or say has no effect on the actions of this pack." An'tir'de glanced at the human which leaned against a wall, watching the argument.
"Look at it. It acts as if it has nothing to fear of us; we should kill the foolish creature and be done with it," Vir'nde said, drawing his spear and preparing to throw it.
An'tir'de took a step towards the student to grab the spear when a loud bang rang out and Vir'nde was knock to the ground. The human had shot at Vir'nde when it saw him draw the spear.
An'tir'de looked at the fallen student and realized the human had only hit the armor of the student, not the exposed flesh; the human didn't try to kill Vir'nde, it had only defended itself.
The human spoke, but An'tir'de ignored it. Instead he reprimanded the student. "You know very well that you deserved that Vir'nde. It could have killed you, but it didn't. Try to go against my will again and I will be the one to shoot you."
"Leader, if I may express a thought, why not take the human with us to our ship? If it survives the battle, we'll let it live, if it dies, it dies," Treken proposed. An'tir'de nodded; that would at least keep Vir'nde at bay for the time being.
An'tir'de turned to the human and gestured that they were ready to leave.
Bert reacted with lightning reflexes. As the smaller alien began to draw its' spear and attack him, Bert leveled his gun, took aim at the armor of the alien's left shoulder and fired.
He had caught the alien completely off-guard and smiled as it fell backward to the ground.
"Try that again, buddy, and the next bullet's going though your head," Bert said with a snarl. He wasn't sure if the bullets in the hand gun he used would punch through the alien's metal mask, but if he got a decent shot with the elephant gun, the alien would be dead before it hit the floor.
Bert started to wonder what the face was like under the metal mask, but then decided he didn't want to know.
The larger alien said something to the smaller one, spoke to another, then gestured to the stairway. Bert grabbed some extra ammo and headed outside into the night.
Earl managed to get the Graboid away from Bert. He just hoped that Bert could handle the Ass-blaster. Earl drove for about twenty minutes, until he lost sight of the Graboid. Once he felt it was safe, he headed over to Bert's place to see if he made it.
Earl drove the car towards the house and parked outside. The gate was open, which was a good sign. Earl entered the house and called out Bert's name. There was no answer. He went downstairs and found that a lot of Bert's guns were missing. Earl walked over to a radio and tried to contact the others at the convenience store.
"This is Earl, come in. Is anyone there?"
After a long five seconds, Earl heard Kate's voice over the radio.
"Earl? You two ok? We started to get worried."
"I'm fine, but I don't know about Bert. An Ass-blaster and a Graboid attacked us and Bert just managed to get away. I got the Graboid to go for me, but I don't know what happened to Bert or the Ass-blaster."
Earl heard gasps over the radio.
"What should we do?"
"Well, the best thing I can think of is all of you coming over here now. Bert's house is the safest place in Perfection Valley. Just bring some kind of weapon and the seismograph with you."
"Ok, Earl; we'll all be over there in a few minutes."
"I'll be waiting for you." Earl turned off the radio and glanced around the room.
Something glowing caught his eye. He walked over to where he saw the glow and saw a tiny drop of phosphorescent green liquid on the ground. He touched his finger to it and was surprised it was warm.
"Whatever this is, I don't think it's good," Earl muttered to himself.
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